On his visit to Ireland this weekend, Donald Trump told journalists that Ukraine should stop striking Russian diesel refineries because it was “hurting the world”.
Speaking about Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, he said his Ukrainian counterpart “has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia”.
“We spoke to Mr. Zelenskyy about it. There are plenty of other targets,” Trump added, in a message that is sure to unsettle Kyiv and its European allies.
Never mind that the US’s war against Iran caused the spike in diesel and petrol prices, or that Ukraine is fighting for its life against Vladimir Putin’s forces. In Trump’s mind, the quick solution to diesel prices hitting $6 a gallon in the US appears to be to blame a country that is supposed to be an ally and was invaded by a foreign aggressor.
The sudden concern for the welfare of the planet wasn’t a sign that Trump is changing – it was a reminder of his own rampant self-interest. It’s also a sign of how desperate the President has become ahead of what is expected to be a harsh rebuke from voters in the US midterm elections in November.
Faced with dismal poll numbers, Trump resorted this week to claiming Americans would get a $5,000 dividend if Republicans maintained control of Congress, a move that was deemed possibly illegal and so expensive his party balked at the $1 trillion price tag.
Trump knows his war in the Middle East is to blame for higher fuel prices and for inflation refusing to go down. He has repeatedly tried to end the conflict, but so far to little avail.
But Trump would never admit that he is responsible, so he has looked around for somebody else to blame – and seemingly settled on Ukraine.
Donald Trump attending the final round of the Irish Open golf tournament at the Trump International Golf Links & Hotel on 13 September, 2026 (Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)Presidential trips to Ireland are about as easy as it gets: during Barack Obama’s 2011 visit to Ireland locals joked about his Irish roots and gave him the nickname “O’Bama”. Joe Biden loved visiting Ireland as, like Trump, he can trace his ancestry there.
Yet Trump’s comments about Ukraine were the second diplomatic hand grenade he threw on what should have been a quiet weekend of golf watching.
Trump’s visit, which coincided with the Irish Open at the Trump International resort in Doonbeg, County Clare, was essentially a golfing weekend dressed up as diplomacy. But on Saturday he told Micheál Martin, Ireland’s taoiseach, that he would “love” to see Ireland unified.
Breaking with decades of precedent since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, which ended the Troubles, Trump said that unification would “happen eventually”.
The comment sparked surprise and outrage, including from Gavin Robinson, the Democratic Unionist party (DUP) leader, who said that Northern Ireland being part of the UK was the “settled democratic will of its people”.
Two weeks ago, Andy Burnham said a referendum on the reunification of Ireland was “off the table” but Trump seemed to be unaware of those comments, or just didn’t care.
Taken with the comments about Zelensky and Ukraine, it was yet another sign that Trump cares little about the impact his words will have on US allies.
Donald Trump has angered unionists with his comments about Irish reunification after a meeting with Taoiseach Micheal Martin(Photo: Ben Birchall/PA)Despite this, the White House will likely view Trump’s trip as a success, simply because of what didn’t happen. The President didn’t start any new wars, didn’t outright attack any close ally or capture the head of any other foreign states. There was also less AI slop going out on Trump’s social media account and he didn’t have time to start another row with Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, with whom he has engaged in a trade war.
It also helped that, in the US, most TV news stations and publications were preoccupied with the threat of an apocalypse caused by AI – and the efforts of the industry to slow development of its most advanced models.
If anything, Trump’s inner circle will relish what they will see as a win from the two-day trip: mocking the EU and leaving a firestorm in the President’s wake.
That’s the upside-down logic of the Trump administration, and a reminder of why it is so hard to deal with the President. Who knows if what Trump said about Ukraine was serious, or if he really meant it about the reunification of Ireland. There rarely appears to be a strategy beyond what comes out of Trump’s mouth in the moment, and no deep and well-considered plan for international relations.
Come Monday, Trump will be back in the US and Ireland can breathe a somewhat sigh of relief. But someone else will likely be the next target of the human wrecking ball in the White House.
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